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You asked and we are delivering! Now you can stream TV shows, movies, music, and audiobooks from Darien Library. On your computer, your Hoopla digital checkout will stream just like a YouTube video or Pandora audio. If you are on a mobile device like your tablet or smartphone, you can download your checkouts to the Hoopla app.

Download 10 items of any combination of movies, music, TV episodes, or audiobooks each calendar month. Hoopla is available on your computer, iPad, iPhone, or Android device. We recommend using Firefox to watch Hoopla on your computer.

Have you ever wondered, "What was that book I loved so much last year?" or "How many books did I read this month?"

Darien Library can now help you answer these questions quickly and easily. We are excited to introduce My Checkout History! In a nutshell, My Checkout History is as an optional feature that allows you to keep track of the items you check out. The information is readily accessible through your account on our website or by request at the Welcome Desk.

This feature will be activated for everyone on January 1, 2014. For people who do not choose to use My Checkout History, it is easy to disable.

Benefits

By using My Checkout History, the Library's online catalog will retain for your personal use a list of all materials that you borrow, for your personal reference. You will be able to remove individual items from your patron history at any time if you wish. If you do choose to disable this feature, there will be no way to access a list of previously checked out materials.

Explore the world of modern and contemporary art with the Darien Library Art iPad. Darien Library is collaborating with the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) to promote the exploration of art in a variety of mediums. By curling up with an Art iPad, you may:

Have you been waiting to print your banner out at the Library? Good news then! We retired our small banner printer and brought in this much larger version. You can print banners up to 42 inches wide by however many feet long.

To get started, you can email your PDF file to helpdesk@darienlibrary.org. Your file needs to be the same size as the actual print. For example, if you want to print a 2' x 3' poster, your file size should also be 2' x 3.' Please give us twenty-four hours notice if you wish to print via sending an email. Otherwise, please see the Help Desk on the Lower Level in the computer lab.

We are pleased to announce a new highlight in the Darien Library collection: passes to the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan!

The Library has seven of these passes available as part of a kit for visiting MoMA—the kit also includes some tips and tricks for making the most of your visit, a MoMA guidebook, a Metro-North train schedule and driving directions, and other tidbits. Each pass admits five people over the age of 16—those under 16 always visit MoMA free. So you can plan to take a big group with you!

How to reserve a pass:

The passes circulate for three days. Passes can be reserved in person at the Welcome Desk, or over the phone (203-669-5239). At this time, passes can only be reserved by residents, members who work in Darien, and Friends of the Library at the $300 annual level or above.

The DML's purpose is to give the Darien community access to high quality equipment for their digital projects. The room and equipment is reserved for special projects instead of general computing which is available in the Power Library. The lab was made possible thanks to the Friends of the Library and a reverse auction held at the 2012 spring's Imagination Gala.

To make a reservation, please contact the Help Desk via email or call 203-669-5238. If you will need help in using the equipment, please ask for a one-on-one appointment as well.

Use of the Lab is available for Darien residents, those who work in Town, and Friends at the $300 level or higher. The Lab will be available for 2 to 4 hour reservable time slots. Members f14+ may use the Lab unassisted while anyone younger needs to be with an adult.

Access Darien Library on the go! Our mobile app will be available on Monday, July 1st, 2013 for all major platforms including iOS for iPhone/iPad and iPod Touch, Android, Kindle Fire and coming soon, Windows 8 phone.

Features include:

searching the catalog

placing and deleting holds

checking account information

downloading OverDrive ebooks and audiobooks

library event listings

general information such as hours and contact information

Facebook and Twitter feeds

Bonus features include using your device's camera to check out items right off the shelf to your account, and also scanning a book's ISBN number, for example, in a bookstore or a friend's house, to check if our library has a copy.

When you find a book or document that you wish to scan, bring it to the KIC scanner. Set the item on the KIC scanner with the pages open to the selection you would like to copy. With a push of a button, the KIC will scan the pages onto its screen in full color. The KIC scanner can handle books of a variety of sizes, and scans up to a 17-inch by 24-inch area at a time.

After scanning, you can crop and enlarge images from the touch screen to the right of the scan bed, and retrieve your images in a variety of ways::